Son gets 30 years for killing former federal prosecutor father with ax

Frank Altimari has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Frank Altimari has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Posted Feb 04 2019 08:56PM CST

FOX NEWS/AP - The son of a former federal prosecutor has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his father with an ax in Virginia.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that a judge on Friday sentenced 32-year-old Frank Altimari after concluding his "detailed delusions that his father wanted a mercy killing by an ax is not reliably substantiated by the evidence." Altimari had pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and malicious wounding in the November 2017 slaying of 61-year-old Nicholas Altimari.

The malicious wounding charge stemmed from the broken leg his stepmother suffered after he struck her and his father with a car.